Garment-fastener.



G. READ.

GARMENT PASTENER. APPLICATION FILED. JULY 1, 1910.

1,052,090. Patented Feb.4,1913.

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UNITED STATES TFT @FFIQE.

CHARLES HEAD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARMENT-FASTENER.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES READ, a citi- Zenof the United States, and resident of the city of New York, county ofQueens, and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Gan ment-Fasteners, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to fastening means, and more particularly togarment fasteners, though the utility of the invent-ion is notnecessarily limited to the garment field.

The object of the invention is to provide a cheap, easily manufactured,and reliable fastening device, which will be useful wherever hooks andeyes are employed andfor many purposes for which hooks and eyes wouldnot be suitable.

To this end, the invention consists in the parts, arrangements andcombinations hereinafter described, illustrated by means of preferredembodiments in the accompanying drawings, and more particularly setforth in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, showing, as illustrative, the preferredform of the invention, Figure 1 is a top plan view of the lower fastenermember; Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the upper fastener member; Fig. 3is a section on the line 33 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of thearrow; Fig. @l is a plan view of the two fastener members superposed andin register as to their outer peripheries; and Fig. 5 is a section onthe line 55 of Fig. 4:, looking in the direction of the arrows.

In the garment fastener as shown the cooperating fastening members arepreferably in the form of plates of suitable form, illustrated in thedrawings as A and B, which are secured to the garment. These plates arepreferably formed by punching the same out of sheet metal and each isformed with a portion within its periphery dropped be- Specification ofLetters Patent.

Application filed July 1, 1910.

Patented Feb. 4, 1913.

Serial No. 569,852.

with the bodies of their plates by web por t ons or strips A and B theseweb portions being formed integral with both the dropped portions andthe plate bodies. Preferably, the web portions A and B are located, asshown, at opposite sides of the dropped portions A and B and near theends thereof, so that they do not interfere with the turning andengagement of the fastener members.

Preferably, the plates A and B are adapted to register when superposedand locked. the dropped portions A and B being rela tively skewed on thetwo plates; so that, when the plates are turned relatively to e11- gagethe dropped portion B beneath the opening in the plate A, the plates arebrought into register.

An important feature of the invention is the provision of centeringmeans, best provided by forming a circular boss A in the dropped portionA and a recess B in the dropped portion B the boss A being received inthe recess B as shown in Figs. 4 and 5. The dropped portion A isdesirably provided with strengthening ribs or corrugations A and thedropped portion B with ribs or corrugations B The plate B may beprovided at its corners with attaching means for securing the same tothe garment, which may be in the nature merely of thread openings B, bymeans of which the garment may be secured against the upper side of theplate. The attaching means A of the plate A is preferably dropped belowthe plane of the body of the plate, so as to space the body of the plateaway from the garment, thus obviating any great bulge due to the droppedportion A This attaching means may be in the nature of the droppedportions of the plate, A having thread apertures A In the use of thefastener, the two plates are attached to the two garment portions whichit is desired to connect by separable fastening means. One garmentportion is secured to the upper side of plate B and the other garmentportion to the lower side of plate A by the attaching means justdescribed. In adjusting the fastening, the two plates are merely skeweda trifle and the dropped portion B enter into the opening over thedropped portion A Upon being released the resiliency of the cloth willcause the dropped portion B to engage beneath the sides of thecooperating opening of the plate A, allowing the garment to assume itsnatural position which will bring the plates into register and throw theparts A and B out of register, as shown in Fig. 4. The portion A servesas a guard to prevent clothing being caught between the portion 13 andthe body of the plate A.

It is thus seen that a simple form of garment fastener is provided,which may be easily made by punching the two parts from sheet metal,thus rendering it possible to produce the same cheaply in largequantities.

It will be understood that in actual manufacture the fasteners will bemuch smaller than shown in the drawings, in which the parts have beenenlarged in order to show more clearly the construction and operation.

hat is claimed as new is:

In a device of the kind described, a pair of plates adapted to besuperposed and to register, each of said plates having an elongatedportion dropped below the plane of its body, forming an openingtherethrough, web portions connecting said dropped portions with itsbody, said elongated portions being of similar size and shape and skewedwith respect to each other, said web portions of each dropped portionbeing arranged at opposite ends and sides and the web of one droppedportion being oppositely arranged with respect to the web of the otherdropped portion, whereby the dropped portion of one plate is adapted toenter the opening over the other dropped portion and by a slightrelative turn of the plate to engage beneath the sides of said opening,and said dropped portions being provided with a central coope 'atingboss and socket.

Signed at New York in the county of New York and State of New York, this17th day of June, 1910.

CHARLES READ.

Witnesses B. W. CoULDocK, BENJ. W. LEWIS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

